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Myths, stories, fantasy, and fiction can open questions about suffering, beauty, and being human in a very profound way. So let us bring old stories back to life through modern problems, and use them to understand the time we are living in more clearly.
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Scylla: I Was Hurt, So I Hurt Others (opens the original)
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Have you noticed, my dear reader, how often pain travels downward? The victim wants revenge, but rarely takes it against the person who caused the wound. Instead, it reaches those who are easier to hurt. Children, animals, the defenseless. The wounded person cannot strike back at the source of the pain, so someone weaker ends up carrying it.Let me retell an ancient story about a beautiful girl who became the target of jealousy and revenge because someone loved her. She was transformed into a mon
The Woman Who Lost Her Voice (opens the original)
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From White Nights to Obsession (opens the original)
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The young dreamer in White Nights is gentle. He is lonely, intoxicated by the possibility that someone has finally entered his private world. But from the beginning an attentive reader start to feel cracks in his romantic story. He walks through the park and notices Nastenka sitting alone on a bench. Another young man notices her too and tries to approach her, but she rejects him. The Dreamer steps in, suddenly feeling like a hero, and moments later he is walking beside her in the role of a prot
What If Autumn Never Came? (opens the original)
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Everything has its time (kairos). There is a time to work, a time to spend with others, and a time to rest. Yet this simple idea somehow feels foreign to modern life, doesn’t it?Every spring, Persephone returns from Hades, and the flowers begin to bloom again. The Horae, goddesses of the seasons, represent this natural order. A flower does not bloom too early or too late. It spends the long winter preparing for the moment when its time finally comes.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" h
Snakes and Dragons Across East and West (opens the original)
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Snakes and dragons carry enormous symbolic weight in both Western and Eastern cultures. They appear as protectors, monsters, bringers of rain, symbols of wisdom, temptation, death, and renewal.That is why I decided to ask a few questions of L. Sam Zhang , who writes about Chinese mythology on Substack and teaches children about traditional Chinese culture. Usually, we hear a simplified contrast. In the West, snakes and dragons become monsters that must be conquered. Heroes slay dragons, saints t
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